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Yeah, but that wont last with the way the water moves in that area. I hope thats all you heard! If not Im whoppin' Jax's arse!

5/24 - Today's trip consisted of a father who had the intentions of getting each of his 3 sons a King Salmon, and that is what we did! Once we got out there the fishing wasn't on fire like previous outings. We soon hooked up and for the rest of the day it consisted of a steady pick of Salmon. Our biggest fish was somewhere around 14lbs. Our first fish of the day took a 3 color core with a Dreamweaver SS Orange Slurpee. It was a small steelhead that we put back to fight another day. This same rig would take a few small salmon along with a nice 12lb Salmon by the end of the day. Our wires were going off consistently out 200' with SmartFish paddles and a variety of A-TOM-MIK flies like the Ultra Glow Green and the Hammer fly. Our Sea Sick Waddlers took a few fish off the riggers as did Coyotes in an NK 28, and Dreamweaver's SS Salmon Slappers. At the end of the day the 10 color core fired with a NK 28 Wonderbread. Ended up boxing 8 nice Salmon and tossing back a few smaller fish. Not our best day this spring, but it was still eventful with a great group of people. 5/25 - Our charter for Sunday and Monday canceled, so we got in some Pro-Am practice. We were accompanied by some friends and left the dock around 6:30. Fishing started off slow but by the end of the day it was RED HOT with many teenage fish finding the deck of our boat. Today's bite was different from the day before in that more fish fell victim to SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK flies. The 450' copper took our biggest fish today at just under 20lbs. Ultra Green Glow, Big Fin, and Hammer flies were the flies of choice. Yesterdays shocking moment came when a 12lb Salmon took a 3 color core, and today's was a 6lb Brown trout that took a Dreamweaver SS Orange Slurpee down 50' over 100fow. This same set-up took a few Coho and small Salmon. Wires out 300' took some great Salmon towards the end of the day. On the riggers we had success with our Sea Sick Waddlers until Mr. Salmon took them from us. Our HOT spoon for two weeks straight and I am fresh out of them! Our other spoon that took some shots was a NK Dimple light Coyote. This would have been a great box of fish if it were tourney day!

How the heck did you get that already? Im still waiting on mine, and they were in production last week!!!!

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I have the pair for sale. These are pictured here below: $150 for the pair These come with mounting plates so they can be removeable.[/b]

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Yup Ray, thats what a fish on the copper does to a board. Its like a bobber. Actually, thats not a good thing when it doesnt release sometimes. I had the release set too tight at Sodus last year during the Pro-Am and had a king hit the copper. We couldnt get the damn thing to release. The fish ended up straightening out the split ring! This is on an NK spoon, so you know the components are good quality.

Shade - Reeljerks beat me to the punch. A-TOM-MIK carries those Smartfish. They are realy cool. I wouldnt ditch the Spinny's and Chips, but start adding these to your arsenal. You can adjust the rotation of the flasher. I have been using the 12 o'clock and the 2 o'clock settings, but I am starting to experiment with other settings. I was running a 3 o'clock setting on the copper this weekend and it was taking shots. As for the silver croc.......nah! Stigner made a similar spoon with a white base coat and an orange dot. They called it thier penguin. I had Billy V paint me up a few last year and we called them waddlers. I wanted a green dot, but when NK made them for me he made a few with a superglow base coat, and its been HOT. Ray - When you think up a color scheme and it fires you can name your own spoon!

5/17 - Another fun filled day on Lake Ontario. We got a lat start around 7am and dropped our lines. Only 6 rods today so we went with 2 riggers, 3 wires, and a 400' copper. It wasn't long till the action started. We took are first rip on the 400' copper that was towing a White on White SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow fly. Fought it for 5 minutes. Set her back out and the rigger fires with a hog wild. that takes a 10lb king. Lost another on the hog wild after we put it back down and the 400' copper goes again. This time its ripping line out. Same SmartFish/A-TOM-MIK set-up. We land it and its a nice 16-17lb Salmon. Rest of the morning we took a few smaller Salmon on various spoons and flasher fly combos. One fly combo was a black Spinny with a Hammer fly. We ran another NK spoon thatwe had custom painted and it took a few shots. I'll see if I can get a picture of it this weekend. Anyway I will be out here till Tuesday doing some fishing, so keep an eye out for reports. 5/18 - Another typical day on the water out of Wilson! Fish were plentiful and willing to play with us today. With just two guys chartering us today we kept them VERY busy boating over 15 fish. The highlight fish today were both 19lb King Salmon. One took a White SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow fly down 150. The other took a Mulatto NK28 down 100. We were surprised when we pulled in about a 15lb Lake Trout that took the always popular White on White Spin Doctor pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly on the wire. Again our new prototype NK28 was firing all morning long on the 100' rigger. Here is a picture of it: This same lure also took some fish off on the high wire diver using the Mag size. Since its my spoon I'm gonna name it! So, when I talk about the "Sea Sick Waddler" this is the spoon! Other combo's that fired were the Black/Crush Glow SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Hammer fly, and on the 400' copper a fish fell victim to the White SmartFish with an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Green Glow fly. There are a lot of 8-12lb fish in the area so working for half a dozen BIG bites is what your job is right now. They are there you just have to be patient. I was taking my bigger fish down deep and a buddy of mine took one down 40, so there is no set program. Go out.......put some good colors down........and hold on! 5/19 - Two words - BLOWN OFF! Yeah, it really blew this morning. So, I went to work. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow morning. Stay tuned for a report on how fishing is after the big West blow. 5/20 - Got out on the water around 5:30 and had lines set by 6am. Today was a weird day. The fish weren't hitting very good, and when they did it was tough to keep them on. It amazes me when a fish hits a fly with a tandem hook set-up and can just drop the lure as if it never had it in its mouth. Our first rip was on the wire with a White on white SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer Fly. Next good rip was on the other wire with a Black SmartFish pulling an A-TOM-MIK Hammer Fly. In the mean time we took some Coho's on various spoons. Dreamweaver SS Slurpee on the 3 color leadcore rod, Sea sick waddler took only one today, and a Mulatto NK28 took one. We took 2 shots on the high wire pulling an NK28 Area 51, which is a new color I have been pulling for them. We lost two nice Salmon on the 400 copper which had a white on white SmartFish and an A-TOM-MIK Ultra Glow Green Fly. We finished the day 10 for 16 and the customers kept 7 fish for the grill. Our two big guys weighed in at 17.5 pounds and 18.10 pounds. Both victim to flies. Our last big guy of the day took 2 out of the 3 Area 51's I had when he hit the corner downrigger and went under the low dipsey diver. When it comes to monofilament vs. wire line the wire is always going to win, and it did again today. Here were the two big guys we managed to box.

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I finally saw it last night. Good job mark! I think you have a good bit of video of my boat the past few years. If you want to toss it on a DVD or a file Id pay ya. Too bad I couldnt give ya any action. Seems like you guys were pretty dead at that time too if you were video taping me. lol Maybe it was one of those dead periods during late morning.

I thought Trojans could go through anything!

Very Funny Mark!!!

Yup! Thats why every team who placed in the Orleans Country Pro Am last year ran to the west to find fish. That was 2 weekends from now last year. If the fishing is so good why does Free Spirit, Reel Excitment, Sunrise II, Irish Thunder, and Capt. Jack on Lucky all leave the Oak for the west end of the lake? You will always have a few stragglers. There was a 25lb'er caught off Sodus the second week of April. Did you also know there was a 33lb'er caugth of Dalhousie yesterday? The Oak has its time when its unstoppable, but thats not right now.

5/11 - First "trip" of the year! Set our lines around 6am and the small King Salmon and Coho's were jumping in the boat. Dreamweaver SS orange Slurpee took a few on the 2 color. Small red dodger with a blue ATOMIK Coho fly took a couple off the 3 color. The 10 color took two 10lb King Salmon with a Stinger Mag Penguin. A light green Spin Doctor/Ultra Glow Green ATOMIK fly took one off the wire diver. Then a bunch of spoons did the job on the downriggers. Back/White/Green glow tape took a Salmon 150 over 150. Super glow/green 28 took a few in the top 50. Lost a nice salmon on a Mountain Dew Spin Doctor with an ATOMIK Hammer fly. Silver Streak Screwball mag took a few, and a Mulatto 28 fired twice. Action was steady until the front came through and the wind picked up. Screen went from fish streaking to blank in a matter of 30 minutes. We tried to find them again, but just went to a pick after that. 5/10 - Got out nice and early with anticipation of running right to the bar and fishing the structure for a quick morning bite. Well, things changed when we found warm water in front of Wilson. We dropped out lines and began fishing. We took a small Coho almost immediately and then proceeded to watch fish fly all over our graph with no takers. Bait was loaded in less than 150fow and so were the fish. We dropped on on the 10 color with a white Spin Doctor/ATOMIK Hammer fly. We fished till 2pm without a bite and then we found the active school. First fish took a light green Spin Doctor/Ultra Glow Green ATOMIK fly. This was our second fish on the LOC Leader board. The next fish took a Mountain Dew Spin Doctor with an ATOMIK Hammer fly. Then it went to a spoon bite. Copper NBK's, Laser Spooks, Coyote, Wonder bread, and Penguins all took fish. Finished the day with about a dozen fish. 5/9 - Dropped our lines around 6:30am and fished for 2 hours until we were blown off by the strong NE winds. We did 5 fish with two of them being around the 18lb mark. 2 fish took a Silver Streak Screwball mag, one took a super glow green 28, one on a laser spook 28, and the last took an ATOMIK fly behind a Spin Doctor. We got back out around 3pm and fished till 8pm with only one whack on the wire with a coyote 28. Tough day after the blow.

Very cool! I don't think I saw you out there this weekend. I couldn't get that TG fly to go at all this weekend. At least someone did though. I'll be up there the rest of the month so If you see me give me a shout.

Dude! Thats a great picture. I must have been in the cabin eating. You got my dad on the bridge and my uncle watching rods.

You weren't the only boat to find that school of Steelies, but when I went there on Sunday they were gone. I pulled a teenager off the bottom in 150 yesterday. And I saw them on the bottom in 230 the rest of the weekend when the bite died. You can bet your arse I will have 24lb stinger weights on the boat the rest of the year!

As long as your fishin from a Ranger! Thats a nice one man. I'll be out there soon.

Its ok Ray Ray! Sorry to cut you short today. I had my uncle matting for me and I needed to keep an eye on the rods and the boat. I tried callin you yesterday on the water, but never raised ya.

You suck! I had to troll around for Salmon all weekend! Nice fish!

NO IT WONT! A lot of people say it will, but I know plenty of guys who do it and it wont hur tit. Use a pinch pad type release. As light as conidtions will alow. Same goes for your copper. Only issue you will run into is the line going from your rod tip to the release will slap the water.

Yeah, we will be there till the Niagara Pro-Am then off to the Oak. There are plenty of boats out there fishin, so Im not sure why the lack of reports. I guess the fishing is good from Olcott to the can, so good luck. Wait till you see the marina. I have never seen it so filled for the derby. I have fished the area for about 5-7 years and the first weekend on the American side is always hit or miss. It only gets better from here on out.

Rich - purple was a hot color out there but last yr it wouldnt go for me and this yr I havent been able to get it to go either. My purple dipseys which r usually HOT wont even go this year so far. IDK :?

Stop over and introduce yourself! I seen the boat over there. Your right about that marina. Its a great place with great facilities.